Chapter 57 Chapter 57

Young people in a state of ignorance are pistachios in the officialdom, but because they are ignorant, they are bound to encounter many failures.But it is precisely because they are ignorant that they are destined to succeed. However, will an ignorant person encounter success or failure in the officialdom?When will they succeed and when will they fail? Let's analyze the state of ignorance first.The word ignorance means blindness, which means that a person is at a time when his cognition of the external world is not clear enough.In the "Book of Changes", this state is composed of a Gen hexagram and a Kan hexagram, which is the so-called Shanshuimeng.

Gen means mountain, stops, and is outside, while Kan means concealment and inside, which means that people who are in a state of ignorance have a emptiness in their hearts, but their external behavior shows a toughness and arrogance that are completely opposite to their hearts, and they refuse to Back off or change yourself.Young people in this state are immature psychologically, and their personality is extremely fragile. The whole person is like a chicken egg, completely unable to resist attacks from the outside world.It is precisely because they are young and they are aware of this that they will show an excessively tough attitude and make up for their inner fragility with external hardness. The whole purpose is to protect their fragile self.

Attacks from the outside world and young people's excessive self-protection are not physical, but conceptual.We must know that the personality of young people has just formed, and their inner self is far from being solidified, and everything from outside their bodies, including schools, teachers, parents, friends and society, is taking this opportunity to input strong signals of change to young people , in an attempt to completely change and control young people.If a young man submits to a certain party, then his personality will be completely lost, and he will become a vassal of the other party, unable to stand up again.

Some young people succumb to the authority of their parents and become vassals of their families; some young people are afraid of the provocation of their peers and are forced to become vassals of their peers; loss.Young people who are completely free from all control do not exist. They are more or less always stimulated by some external signal to a certain extent.This kind of stimulation is integrated with the young people's self-personality, which objectively weakens the young people's ego.The latter has further led to the tough attitude of young people in life-otherwise, he would not be able to protect himself.

So we know why young people who are in a state of ignorance encounter failures in official life. Young people who are in a state of ignorance, when they enter the officialdom, people in the officialdom will immediately show a high degree of attention to their arrival, countless eyes are focused on them, and everyone is paying attention to the young people intentionally or unintentionally. exert influence.These influences include both positive stimuli that benefit young people's official careers and negative stimuli that can ruin their careers. Young people who are still in a state of growth can only passively accept the stimulation of these external signals, and use these signals as materials to reshape their personalities.If they receive the correct information, they will become calm and calm, far more attuned to the environment than the old guys in the officialdom.In this case, even if they have no intention of falling in love with official positions, the matter of being promoted to rank will fall on their heads.

On the contrary, if young people accept negative information and condense this information with their personality, then they will become incompatible with the laws and regulations of the officialdom, and they will be blamed at every turn, they will not go well, and they will be full of complaints. depressed.At this time, even if they have the opportunity to be promoted, they will do extremely absurd things and become a joke in the officialdom. During the Tang Dynasty, there were three prime ministers, Wei Anshi, Ji Xu and Fang Rong.Wei Anshi's son was Wei Zhi; Ji Xu's son was Ji Wen; Fang Rong's son was Fang Guan, and Fang Guan later became a prime minister.

This story happened when Fang Rong was prime minister.A young man named Xi Ang, obviously in a state of bewilderment, came to Chang'an, and soon made friends with Wei Zhi, Ji Wen and the housekeeper, and became good friends.One day, Xi Ang and Wei Zhi were chatting together, and they talked about the prime ministers of the current dynasty, which one was the most wicked and the worst.At that time, Xi Ang didn't even think about it, and blurted out: "In my opinion, the most wicked prime minister is Wei Anshi, don't you think so?" After speaking, he was waiting for Wei Zhi to express his support, when he suddenly remembered that Wei Zhi was Wei Anshi His son, he even said to his face that his father was the most wicked.As soon as I was scared, I turned around and ran out.When I ran to the street, I happened to meet Ji Wen, and Ji Wen asked him: "What's the matter in such a hurry?" Xi Ang told Ji Wen in frustration: "I just said something carelessly, and I offended someone. In Wei Zhi’s face, I said his father was the most wicked, but actually I was not talking about his father, but Ji Xu. Ji Xu is the most wicked prime minister, don’t you think so?” Ji Wen: “……what?”

It was only when Xi Ang came out of his mouth that he suddenly realized that Ji Xu was Ji Wen's father, and he actually scolded his father in front of him again. Isn't this... fearful, he turned around and ran again.This time he ran to Prime Minister Fang Rong's house in one breath, and Fang Rong asked him what happened.He gasped and said, "I got into a catastrophe today. In front of Wei Zhi, I said his father was the worst prime minister, and in front of Ji Wen, I said his father was the worst prime minister. Actually I really didn't mean that, what I meant was that the most wicked prime minister is actually Fang Rong." Fang Guan: "...What did you say?"

It's over, this Xi Ang, he actually said in front of three powerful people in one day that their father was the most wicked.After such a big mistake, even his colleagues couldn't bear to run him down again, because it was rare in human history that a single person could make such a bizarre mistake. Why do you say that the mistakes made by Xi Ang are also rare in human history?This is because there has never been a person who has fallen into the same pit three times in a row like him, and even if there is, it is certainly not as fast as his rhythm.He makes mistakes so fast that people want to remind him that there is no time to correct them.On the surface, it seems that this is just a language error, but in fact, the problem is in his head.

In Xi Ang's mind, he had a negative attitude towards all the previous prime ministers.This slip of the tongue would never have been possible had he not had this negative idea in his subconscious mind. Looking at it from another angle, although these three prime ministers are not well-known in history, there is nothing bad about them. Besides, Wei Anshi, who was first identified by Xi Ang as a wicked prime minister, is still a very upright and competent prime minister. .Such a person can't get the approval of Xi Ang, which shows that there is a problem with Xi Ang's worldview. There is a problem with the so-called world view, that is, in the process of forming Xi Ang's self-personality, something incorrect is mixed in.This kind of incorrect thing is just a wrong value concept, because the value concept is wrong, so Xi Ang's evaluation of things is completely opposite to the normal situation.

It is precisely because Xi Ang's value concept is completely opposite to the normal state. In his opinion, an act of integrity is nothing more than stubbornness, and it is obviously a fight against evil forces.The worst thing is that because he looks at the problem from the perspective of the lighthouse radiating the whole world, he only sees others but not himself, so he cannot recognize his own mistakes, so he makes the same mistake three times in a row. The value concept of self-personality is completely distorted. This is the highest state of failure that newcomers in the workplace enter in a state of ignorance.It is very difficult for a person to correct his wrong personality after reaching this level.